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In this seminar, distinguished US academic Ian Shapiro draws from his new book with Frances Rosenbluth – Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself (Yale University Press, 2018). He will discuss the varieties of political competition across the democratic world, and suggest in particular that efforts to reform political parties over the past several decades to make them more democratic have backfired – compounding voter alienation, undermining good governance, and empowering demagogues and other populists. He will also provide his analysis about what needs to be done to reverse the trend. Dr Sherrill Stroschein will offer a response to these thoughts.